Lifecycle environmental benefits of integrated rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetland in mitigating nutrient loading

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F25%3A102850" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/25:102850 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/25:10489155 RIV/60461373:22320/25:43933881

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109202</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lifecycle environmental benefits of integrated rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetland in mitigating nutrient loading

Original language description

Agricultural activities due to fertilization contribute significantly to nutrient loadings and other environmental burdens, posing a severe threat to ecosystems. Although a portfolio of green agricultural practices is recommended, few studies address the environmental benefits from a life-cycle perspective. This study comprehensively evaluates the cradle-to-gate environmental benefits of integrating rational fertilization, biochar, and constructed wetlands (CWs) exemplified by plum cultivation. Four assessment scenarios were designed: (S1) conventional cultivation, (S2) rational fertilization with biochar amendment, (S3) conventional cultivation with a simulated CWs system, and (S4) rational fertilization with biochar amendment and a simulated CWs system. In the assessment, rational fertilization used half the fertilizer compared to conventional practices, biochar was applied at 0.1 ton/ha, and horizontal subsurface flow CWs were filled with washed gravel and planted with Phragmites australis. The findings show that rational fertilization combined with biochar (S2) or CWs (S3) alone show about half the eutrophication impacts of conventional cultivation (S1). Combining rational fertilization, biochar and CWs (S4) further reduces freshwater and marine eutrophication potentials by similar to 73.5 % and similar to 69.8 %, respectively. Similarly, these green agricultural practices (either S2 or S4) effectively reduce the overall endpoint impacts by about 47 %, with synergistic improvements, particularly in endpoint freshwater ecotoxicity and freshwater eutrophication, observed for S4 (a significant reduction of 76 %) compared to S1. Regarding the carbon footprint, the production of plums using conventional agriculture emits similar to 300 kg CO2-eq per ton-plum, whereas using green agricultural practices results in only similar to 138 kg CO2-eq per ton-plum, representing a reduction of 45.8 % in greenhouse gas emissions. This study highlights the potential of green agricultural practices to mitigate NPS nutrient loadings to aquifers and achieve sustainable agricultural management through reduced global warming and other environmental impacts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10503 - Water resources

Project

<a href="/en/project/TM03000051" target="_blank" >TM03000051: Integrated bio-farming and green infrastructure towards smart and responsible resource management: the Hydrosphere-Pedosphere link</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

ISSN

0378-3774

e-ISSN

0378-3774

Volume of the periodical

307

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 1 2025

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001380596200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85211114118